May 2003

 

Happy Floralia!
(An ancient Roman Festival welcoming the Spring, May 1-2)

 

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT CONSILIUM… In this corner of our site we’ll be posting notes on new people, new projects, and new online materials you may find interesting. Enjoy, and come back often.
 

NEW COMPANY

  • Not that we like to tease, or anything like that...but watch this space for a very exciting announcement next month. A not very helpful hint...it will start with an "A".
     

NEW PROJECTS


Signing of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement
 

  • You read it here first. Patti Black will be working with Canada's Inuit and First Nations Land Claim groups to organize a major national conference on Claims Implementation November 11-14, 2003, in Ottawa. Hosted jointly by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the NWT Aboriginal Summit and Makivik, the conference theme will be "Redefining Relationships: Learning from a Decade of Land Claims Implementation in Canada".

Over 200 participants from claim groups and government across Canada and internationally will share their land claim implementation experiences, identify challenges, and discuss future opportunities for collective action. Look for a special web page on this site within the next few weeks with additional details: if you'd like to be included on the conference mailing list, email your coordinates to Ryan Lotan at rlotan@consilium.ca


ONGOING PROJECTS

  • Marcel Mason, Web Master of webmasters, is working with Terry Rudden to put the finishing touches on NITC's new website, due for launch in early June. The site will incorporate a number of unique features, including access to three languages from any page. Now if only we could figure out how to pop champagne cork online...


Peter Kapolak, Hugh Nateela and Peter Kritaqliluk, NITC


Valerie in Liidli Kue, NWT (formerly Ft. Simpson)


COMPLETED PROJECTS
  • Valerie Assinewe has just completed a survey of scientific research on Aboriginal women's health and healing in Canada. Prepared for the Aboriginal Women's Health and Healing Research Group, Valerie's review will provide this new national organization with the information they need to establish priorities to complete their strategic plan.

  • This month will see the completion of Flying Together, a year-long community based planning project that was undertaken in each of nine communities in the Mushkegowuk region of Ontario. The project was co-sponsored by Wakenagun Community Futures Development Corporation and Mushkegowuk Council Employment and Training Services. Co-ordinated Community Economic Development and Human Resource Development Plans were prepared in each community, as well as Economic and Human Resource Development Plans for the region as a whole. The Flying Together project team included Fred Weihs, Ron Ryan, and Patti Black of Consilium, Flo Frank of Common Ground Consulting, and Rick MacLeod Farley, John Rickard and Peter Dixon for MacLeod Farley and Associates.

 

GOSSIP

  • Forty seven people responded to last month's "Do You Want To See A Picture of Terry's Frozen Finger Online"? The result: forty five "no", one "yes", and one wag who said: "Only if it's a digital photo." Get it? DIGITal? Har.

 

April's plethora yields to May's paucity in the birthday department. In fact, we don't have a single birthday to celebrate. So by executive decision, May's Gossip Section will salute the Blissfully Wedded Couples of Consilium (B.W.C.O.C.). Happy Anniversary  to:

  • Leslie Sutherland and David Forster, celebrating their 13th on May 11th. On that very same day, Ritchie (La Bamba) Valens was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame posthumously.


Leslie and David (not exactly as shown)
 

  • Fred Weihs and Kowyeesa Owpaluk, celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary on May 22nd, also the anniversary of Bob Dylan's Bar Mitzvah in Hibbing, Minnesota.

  • Terry Rudden and Valerie Assinewe, celebrating their 13th anniversary on May 30th...the same anniversary as Paul Simon and Edie Brickell.

 

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